Dou (volume)

Dou (Chinese: 斗; pinyin: dǒu), called to in Japan and du in Korea, is a unit of volume in East Asia. It originated in China and later spread to Japan, Korean and other places. One dou equals 10 sheng or 1/10 dan, is 10 liters in China, 18.039 liters in Japan and 18 liters in Korea.

Dou is one of the traditional Chinese units of measurement used to measure cereal grains, among other things.

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